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So yeah, sourceforge is still down

Kind of annoying when I wanted to expand something with mingw, and all their download mirrors are… sourceforge. And since I finally got around to putting Cockatrice on git but where did I put it? sourceforge.

Seems everyone has a good outage from time to time. What to do? Trust more of the cloud?

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Well yes. Oddly enough Github who runs all over AWS seems to never have outages will do. You can move your local storage to a Github account.

Regarding your MinGW problems, they should let you download something locally. Of course according to that Twtter status screen as of several minutes ago, there’s no update indicated. So…. there you go.

my only concern is sourceforge has been around since the 90s and has (well up until now) staying power. So many of these new fangled things open to a lot of noise, and shut for no apparent reason leaving everything in the lurch.

I know about the ‘download bundler’ nonsense, but they have been in operation far longer than anything else out there, which is why I’ve been hesitant to switch to something that in all likelihood won’t be here in 10 years. Plus it was free and offered more services than things like github/bitbucket. Oh well.